Actionscript for Duplicating

I'm having some problem with Actionscript for Duplicating. I wanted to make a button to duplicate a starship like Broken Mirror where you make a fleet, but when I press the button, it only duplicates one. And if pressed again the duplicated one just keeps moving around.

Help!

The code I typed in:

Code:

on (release){
    //keep track of how many movie clips duplicated
    num_movie_clips = num_movie_clips+1
    //duplicate movie clip
    myMovie.duplicateMovieClip("myMovie"+num_movie_clips,num_movie_clips);
    //position movie clip
    _root["myMovie"+num_movie_clips]._x=Math.random()*550
    _root["myMovie"+num_movie_clips]._y=Math.random()*350
}

The swf file
SWF file

File name: Untitled-1.fla File size: 47.50 KB

The fla file.

oooh, that's out of my league, never got that far, I was only beginning to touch on activating MCs in the AS when I stopped using flash

i think your gonna want to change "num_movie_clips = num_movie_clips+1" to +2 or ++ or whatever to create more than one

I did num_movie_clip ++, still doesn't work. Maybe I'll try again.

try like +2 or sumin then

That it's similar to java and C... weird...

Ok, lets see... may be you should check if there is any ship existent, and then use a loop cycle to keep adding +1 (until the user closes the program... or script...)